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" Pina Bausch Foundation | Fellowship for Dance and Choreography 2025 "

Pina Bausch Foundation | Fellowship for Dance and Choreography 2025

Pina Bausch Fellowship inspires dancers to create cooperation projects with a total 30,000 € grant

Image credit: © Pina Bausch Foundation; Photographer Walter Vogel

Finding a language for life – the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Pina Bausch Foundation have been following up on Pina Bausch’s credo since 2016 with a co-developed grant programme and award the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography.

FELLOWSHIP 2025

In 2025, the Pina Bausch Fellowship supports a wide range of cooperation formats: the fellowships can be realised on site with the cooperating partners, but can also take place virtually or in hybrid form.

Interested artists can apply with a cooperation format from January 15 until March 15, 2025. Applications should be based on realistic evaluations of their implementation. Applicants apply with a self-selected cooperating partner whose artistic work they are interested in or with whom they would like to work. The fellowship aims at enabling further artistic and personal development of the applicants.

In 2025, a variety of cooperation formats will be supported, taking place on-site, virtually or in hybrid form. Through the various possibilities, the fellowship adapts to the individual situation of the artists and offers them the freedom to further develop their unique artistic style through mentoring, exchange and new experiences.

Please read more here.

INFO

AMOUNT

The 2025 fellowships must take place between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026. Artists can apply for a full-time fellowship (21 hours or more per week) or a part-time format (20 hours or less per week) in 2025. The monthly allowance is 2,500 € for a full-time fellowship or 1,000 € for part-time fellowships.


APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 15, 2025 at 12 midnight CET


ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine

ELIGIBILITY

- All artists from the field of dance and choreography with at least 2 years of professional experience and/or with a formal degree - all dance forms are welcome!
- There are no age restrictions.
- The fellowship is promoted internationally and aims at individual artists in the field of dance and choreography.


APPLICATION DETAILS

Each fellowship format is designed entirely by the applicants and their cooperating partners. The duration depends on the individually designed format, but should not be less than three months.

The participants themselves must calculate travel costs and state in advance within the application form. These travel expenses should cover travel to and from the fellowship location, and one visit to the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia for the final week. 

* To apply please check the application form and make sure to read all the open call requirements and details in the organizations' official website before you apply.

DEADLINE

2025-03-15


TYPE OF SUPPORT

Philanthropy


COUNTRY OF THE PROVIDER

Germany


WEBSITE

KEYWORDS
Arts - Performing arts